[Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

[Greg Ewing]

Scott McCarty wrote:
> All, I have searched everywhere (mostly the code and a little google) 
> and I cannot understand where the SIGKILL signal gets checked when it is 
> set as a handler.

Possibly it's not being checked at all by Python, but
is being rejected by the system call. The Darwin man
page says this about signal(3) in the ERRORS section:

      [EINVAL]           An attempt is made to ignore or supply a handler for
                         SIGKILL or SIGSTOP.

Not sure why it gets reported as a RuntimeError rather
than an OSError, though.

-- 
Greg